Looks like it is to gain 20 minutes of rest before doing the 400 IM.
What do you folks think? Fair play or not?
I say anyone attempting the 1650 and 400 IM back to back deserves some slack.
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Distance swimmers, those of swimming purity
In retrospect, I'm going to back off a bit from my earlier statement of congeniality regarding split requests. Meet Directors do their best to schedule events as best they can to accommodate common multi event combinations (50 Free & 100 Free, not 50 *** and 1650). It's rather disrespectful for an individual to change the event lineup based on personal convenience.
I was unpleasantly surprised to discover how big the drop off is for a second event the same day at my age, but isn't part of the challenge of swimming to do your best in multiple events? The last meet I went to my times were all over the board, but I thought it was kind of cool to do the 200,400,800,1500 Free and 200 Fly and have every swim make last year's Top Ten.
Distance swimmers, those of swimming purity
In retrospect, I'm going to back off a bit from my earlier statement of congeniality regarding split requests. Meet Directors do their best to schedule events as best they can to accommodate common multi event combinations (50 Free & 100 Free, not 50 *** and 1650). It's rather disrespectful for an individual to change the event lineup based on personal convenience.
I was unpleasantly surprised to discover how big the drop off is for a second event the same day at my age, but isn't part of the challenge of swimming to do your best in multiple events? The last meet I went to my times were all over the board, but I thought it was kind of cool to do the 200,400,800,1500 Free and 200 Fly and have every swim make last year's Top Ten.
